14 Introductions

Rei was awake on his bed and laying down doing nothing. He woke up earlier than everyone and had nothing else to do so he was just thinking about things in his bed.

Kataoka had emailed Rei to come later than his teammates to the ground because he will be introducing himself to the team separately. He had also gotten his uniform which was in his dorm room cabinet when he arrived.

The uniform had no number behind it or anything special about it. It was just a normal blue and white baseball team uniform.

Kataoka had promised Rei a spot on the 1st string team, but he figured his position will be made official when they decide the lineup.

Rei was excited today because he was going to meet the team. He hasn't gotten used to this environment yet.

He also wanted to try out the team's equipment, such as the pitching machine.

While Rei was just laying on the bed the room's lights suddenly turned on.

He turned his head to the side and found that Chris senpai was awake and getting ready to go to the field.

As the lights turned on Kanemaru also got up with an irritated expression on his face.

Rei was holding his laugh in when he looked at Kanemaru's bedhead.

*Stifles**Stifles* echoed the sound of Rei trying to hold his laughter.

Hearing the sound, Chris looked up and found the source of the sound.

Ignoring Rei, Chris looked at Kanemaru and said seriously while pointing at his watch on his wrist, "You, get ready we are supposed to be on the ground in 10 minutes".

Hearing Chris, Kanemaru hustled and got ready.

Chris grabbed his bag and exited the room. Kanemaru followed him outside after stealing a glance at Rei.

Rei felt like something was wrong because Chris didn't say anything to him like Kanemaru. He shrugged and went to freshen himself up.

At Chris and Kanemaru's side, outside the dorm room door.

"Why didn't you say anything to Rei", asked Kanemaru.

Chris stayed silent in response.

Kanemaru shrugged thinking it was none of his business. He thought Rei seemed like a brat who got on the team in other ways, not because of his skills.

Sometimes having good looks or a resting bitch face doesn't make a good first impression on people. Especially stuck-ups like Kanemaru.

"Coach, I hope you don't have many expectations for that kid, " thought Chris, walking towards the field with Kanemaru.

Meanwhile in the Seido ground.

Kataoka walked to the ground with 34 new 1st years following him.

"I'm your coach Kataoka", said Kataoka seriously introducing himself.

"Is this all the new members this year?", asked Kataoka.

"HAII", said the 34 new 1st years simultaneously.

"Introduce yourselves one at a time". said Kataoka.

All the 2nd and 3rd years were standing back and watching the 1st years introduce themselves.

Specifically, Kuramochi and Masuko were laughing together and thinking about what they had just done to the new 1st year in their dorm.

Takashima was getting restless waiting for Sawamura because she had scouted him, and she held herself responsible for him. She was feeling a mixture of emotions because she had heard from Kataoka about Rei whom she had seen before but she didn't know any information about his skills. Since Kataoka vouched for his skills, she thought that he must have good baseball skills and didn't doubt Kataoka's decision.

"OSHIMA HIROSHI FROM MIYAGAWA SENIOR LEAGUE", yelled one of the students to introduce themselves.

Like this, all the 34 new 1st years introduced themselves.

Currently, with Sawamura and Miyuki Kazuya.

They were having their comical and iconic scene where Sawamura is late, and Miyuki takes advantage of him.

Suddenly Kataoka heard a yell and looked back to see Sawamura running.

All the players and Kataoka looked at Sawamura with a stupefied expression.

This caused Sawamura to turn into a stone.

"That idiot...", said Takashima frustratingly.

"There's a good explanation---", said Sawamura with beads of sweat rolling down his face. He appeared to be quite flustered.

Sawamura was dumbfounded seeing Miyuki in the lineup of students and he realized what Miyuki did.

"Kid, you've got some guts being tardy on the first day and you've got a twisted mentality for trying to sneak in, to boot", said Kataoka seriously.

"GO RUN FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING PRACTICE", yelled Kataoka.

Miyuki, Kuramochi, and Masuko were laughing at Sawamura for his misery.

"That goes for the 2 older guys roaming with him and the idiot who jumped into line while we were busy with him. You guys run too" said Kataoka angrily.

Miyuki, Kuramochi and Masuko gasped in shock.

Meanwhile with Rei.

Rei freshened up and changed his clothes.

Rei chilled for an hour playing games on his phone. He had nothing to do and had to go late to the morning practice. So, playing games sufficed since he had nothing better to do.

As soon as an hour passed by, he exited the door and walked toward the field.

After 5 minutes he arrived at the field.

The other players looked at him and at their coach thinking that the coach was going to punish him for being late like the other 4.

"YAAAHAAA...look there is another stupid person like you and Miyuki", said Kuromochi to Sawamura while pointing towards Rei.

All 4 of them looked at Rei thinking that he was fucked.

"What's wrong with this, we have another person joining us", said Miyuki playfully.

"Yeah, I'd be happy to let them join us", said Sawamura smiling.

Masuko just stayed silent and held up a sheet of paper that said, 'YEAH'.

"Like anyone needs your permission", said Kuramochi mocking Sawamura.

Hearing Kuramochi's comment Sawamura got pissed and both of them started arguing.

Rei approached Kataoka as he saw him in the dugout.

Kataoka's face brightened as he saw Rei walking toward him.

He took Rei and brought him towards the field where all the 1st years, 2nd years, and 3rd years were practicing.

He looked over to Miyuki, Kuramochi, Sawamura, and Masuko gesturing for them to come to the field.

Miyuki nodded seeing Kataoka's gesture and brought the other 3 along with him back to the field.

"Attention all of you, I have something important to announce", said Kataoka.

All of the 1st years, 2nd years, and 3rd years gathered in the field paying attention to Kataoka.

When all of them looked over at Kataoka, they all were curious seeing the blue-eyed dude standing next to him.

"As you all know because of a recent injury in the 1st string another spot has opened. So, in total 4 spots are available now", said Kataoka holding up 4 fingers.

All of the players nodded since they had heard of this news before.

"Ohhhh…interesting", thought Miyuki looking at the blue-eyed person. He kind of had a gist of where this announcement was leading.

"I have decided to give 1 of the spots to Rei", said Kataoka pointing toward the blue-eyed person next to him.

"Hi, it's a pleasure to meet you", said Rei while bowing toward them.